Dual Ethernet NIC w/ failover

From: John Straiton (jsmailing_at_clickcom.com)
Date: 11/19/03

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Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 10:07:16 -0500

    Greets!
            I have seen a number of posts regarding support of the dual ethernet
    cards, however I haven't seen a lot of posts regarding the availability of
    dual ethernet cards with working failover software... I have a couple of the
    Intel 10/100/1000's on hand but it appears that the software they use only
    comes in a linux binary. I'm a bit leary of trying to shoehorn it into
    working with the linux binary compatibility (assuming I could) since the
    whole purpose of having a dual ethernet NIC is to take variables *out* of
    the networking.
            I'm looking to try to hook a 5.1-R machine up to two separate
    switches that connect to the same core and run spanning tree so that a
    failure in either a switch or a network cable would automagically fail over
    to the other port at the same IP.
            Does anyone have any suggestions on dual gigabit NICs that they have
    been able to get into switch-failover mode?
            
    John Straiton
    jks@ clickcom.com
    Clickcom, Inc
    704-365-9970x101

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